increasingly
adverb
In Wikipedia
Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.
Counted by Mova
139 uses in 85 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as an adverb in 139 of 139. By the class of the article: country 35, city 19, agglomeration 10, other 8. Most often with: «become», «grow», «city», «government», «have».
Examples
- Since the early 2000s, tennis has become increasingly popular among school age children in Abkhazia. — Abkhazia, sentence 625 («wiki:Abkhazia:625»)
- Non-profit organizations have been formed to collect the plastic and an increasingly growing network of recyclers and informal waste recovery networks. — Accra, sentence 111 («wiki:Accra:111»)
- Violations of human rights in Antigua and Barbuda have been increasingly reported since 2017. — Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 161 («wiki:Antigua_and_Barbuda:161»)
Note
Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.
Sources
- From Wikipedia, «Abkhazia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- From Wikipedia, «Accra», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- From Wikipedia, «Antigua and Barbuda», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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